Crashing down, lightning flashing in the sky, and power outages. Right now, there are thousands without power in northern virginia. Than 10,000 more experiencing an outage. A lot of people were watching the weather from their cars tonight. Jonathan Richard Reeves and one of the hardest hit areas, but we start with steve rudin. Are we out of the woods yet . Of it is out of the area come all of this moving to the north and east. Northern Montgomery County, you are in the clear right now. ,outhern maryland, Leonardtown Waldorf comes to looking at moderate to heavy rain along with some lightning and thunder. D. C. Metro, the capital beltway, most of this will be out of here the next half hour, 45 minutes. If you have to take the dog for a quick walk, may want to hold off just a little bit. Tomorrow, one more day with a heat advisory d. C. Metro, all the areas in orange, including the district, arlington, alexandria, and southern maryland, with heat index values of 105 to 109. The timing of
Thanks. You can stay connected connecteh the stormwatch7 team anytime at wjla. Com or through the stormwatch7 or twitter feeds. You can download the stormwatch7 app for your phone or tablet. You will get texted anytime there is a watch or warning that is issued. Alison a big story in the district today. He is has been the face of d. C. Police department for the last ten years. But today, chief cathy lanier announced she is calling it a career in favor of protecting football fans and players. We have Team Coverage of her bage nouncement tonight starting with Stephen Tschida her big announcement tonight starting with Stephen Tschida outside police headquarters. Stephen chief laniers announcement stubbed a lot of people. Keep in mind, her stunned a lot of peak. Keep in mind her contract was up in january. If you look at other chiefs he is had been on the job for a decade. That is a long time for a police chief in a major city. 26 years at m. P. D. Nearly ten at the head of the dep for the
In the evening is when dc fire and ems crews responded to the scene. I also want you to take a look just beyond the smoke there at the door, and very top part of the building there, what youre seeing, look at that soot that is completely staying right where the smoke and flames were shooting upwards. Lets take you now to video that dc fire and ems shots when they were here on scene to also very impressive, scary. Let you know this is an underground transformer fire. Very big flames here. Theres a lot of, from what i understand be those transformers have a lot of oil in them. Thats what burns so much, when you perhaps have a corroded wire. That sparked that flame. There wasnt much dc fire could do until pepco fire got here on scene. It says about 12 56 is when they finally arrived on the scene to almost an hour past before the power was cut off before dc fire could get in there and put the flame retardant and get the fire out. We still had the smoking going on for hour upon hour after t
Phones at the station instead of relying on 911 dispatchers. Patc throughout the day this has been a major problem and tonight somt sprint customers are furious with the way the company has handled it but it took hours and hours for them to put out an alert. It started last night with an underground transformer fire on 18th and l streets. Sprint says this is what impacted cell service today. Causing some customers to get a busy signal when they dialed out, including to 911. Law enforcement took to social media to warn people. As for sprint, at around noonund the Company Posted on facebook and twitter that there may be landline issues but said nothing about wireless or 911 problems. Hours went by. I. E. Mailed sprint and posted to their facebook asking why there was no update and only after that, about an hour later did sprint finally send an alertler adding customer safety and security is a for some, it was too little too late. One customer wrote on sprints facebook page, this illustra
She hopes young girls today can learn from her story. Theres nothing thats not possible with hard work. Your attitude and hard work will get you wherever you want to go and a lot of young people dont have that confidence, especially if they have that background. Reporter shes had a tumultuous relationship with many of her officers and while the chairman of the d. C. Police union thanked her for that service, the treasurer blasted her on social media today saying in a statement, lanier should be ashamed that shes leaving the department in such disarray. 994 officers have fled in just 2 1 2 years and morale has never been worse. You cant be the boss and do a job of 5,000 employees and think that there is going to be somebody that is not happy. I have a bunch of people that say thank you and a bunch of people that say why are you doing this . Reporter weve been headquarters and people walking by and people are asking if shes going to coach the redskins and, no, shes going to be head of th